Fuel compound.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HENRY RICKER, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TOSAMUEL PERCIVAL GREENE AND JOHN ALFRED TORNEY EVANS, OF

FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

FUEL COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,722, dated August26, 1902.

Application filed February 8, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, JAMES HENRY RICKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas,have invented a new and useful Fuel Compound Known as Rickers Crude0ilBrick Fuel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fuel, and has for its object to provide animproved composition of matter producing a fuel as a substitute for coaland to have the fuel in such form as to be conveniently handled intransportation and in using the same in grates, stoves, and furnaces,and in any way that coal can be used, furnishing a fuel absolutelynonexplosive, equal, if not superior, to the best grade of bituminouscoal at a less cost.

The fuel consists of the following thor- 2o oughly-mixed ingredients, byvolume: crude petroleum, eighteen and three-fourths per cent., rosin,two and one-half per cent., sawdust, twelve and one-half per cent.,clay, twelve and one-half per cent; liquid glass, two and one-half percent.; lignite or coaldust, fifty-one and one-fourth per cent. total,one hundred per cent., the resilient compound being put up loosely inbulk and also pressed into bricks or cakes or any other form desired. Itwill also be observed that the oil, rosin, sawdust, and lignite orcoaldust form highly -combustible component parts of the fuel, theliquid glass and clay serving as a bond between the other ele- SerialNo. 93,197. (No specimens.)

ments. The clay also forms in part a body for the fuel to hold andmaintain the heat when the other parts begin to decrease in temperatureand also to prevent too rapid burning of the combustible parts of thecompound,the rosin uniting with the other parts to sustain thecombustion.

The present fuel is in such form as to be conveniently handled and,furthermore, is non-explosive. It will furthermore be understood thatthe rosin, sawdust, and lignite or coal-dust are in powdered form, thethree last-named elements forming a vehicle for the crude petroleum-oiland the liquid glass and the clay binding the compound together, theclay forming in part a body for the same.

What is claimed is this:

Anartificial fuel consisting of the following thoroughly-associatedingredients,by volume, in about the proportions as follows: Crudepetroleum eighteen and three-fourths per cent., rosin two and one-halfper cent., sawdust twelve and one-half per cent., clay twelve andone-half per cent., liquid glass two and one-half per cent. and ligniteor coaldust fifty-one and one-fourth per cent.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES HENRY RIGKER.

WVitnesses:

WM. J. BISHOP, SALLYE SIMPSON.

